To bitt the cable is to fasten it round the “bitt” or frame made for the purpose, and placed in the fore part of the vessel.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.